BBC Sport NI explains the proposed rule changes to gaelic football which will be trialled when the interpros return later this month.
With their All-Ireland celebrations still going on, Armagh fans may not be too excited by the Football Review Committee's proposal but there has been a groundswell of opinion that change is requiredThe GAA's latest tinkering with its football rules will be trialled later this month when the Interprovincial Series makes a return for the first time since 2016 with two semi-finals and a final to be played at Croke Park on 18-19 October.
As alluded to above, it's far from the first occasion that the GAA made moves to rewrite the rulebook but these proposed changes look far reaching given the lengthy list of alterations produced by Gavin's committee. As hurling has become the poster boy of the GAA in recent years, in contrast football has morphed into a problem child for many hitherto passionate watchers amid the preponderance of a no-risk, short-passing, possession-based game.
The committee's attempts to encourage attacking play has also seen it propose that teams should always have a minimum of three players inside both 65-yard lines. Thus managers wouldn't be able to pull everybody behind the ball when the opposition are in possession. Tweaks to the current advanced mark will enable players cleanly fielding the ball inside the 20-metre line to continue on in an attempt to score from play, but with the ball being brought back for the mark if no score accrues. The thinking behind this rule is aimed at incentivising teams to kick long into the forwards.The committee has also been working on additional proposals which it believes would further embolden the 'seven core enhancements'.
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